Friday, 14 August 2009

resin cabochons, butterflies & pendants

I've been having an enjoyable time making lots & lots of resin pendants, cabochons & butterflies for my BEADS shop on GroovyCart. I've just upgraded the shop to silver so now all I've got to do is fill it with stock!

These pendants, butterflies & cabochons have been added today - I've got lots more to finish & photograph & even more still curing...

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ME

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME...

I started making jewellery for myself a few years ago and soon became totally addicted. I borrowed books from the library and bought lots too.

I discovered resin after going on a silver clay workshop in 2007. Whilst I loved making the pure silver jewellery it was adding colour that interested me. I tried enamelling and might have pursued that direction if I hadn't discovered you could use coloured resin instead of enamel to achieve the effect I was looking for.

Then I bought a book about resin jewellery and as soon as it arrived I knew this was what I wanted to do. I struggled in the early days as there were virtually no supplies or moulds available in the UK. Everything was trial and error - and there were lots of errors. Luckily today both the resin and moulds are more easy to source in the UK.

Since the early days I have developed my techniques and skills. I'm constantly experimenting - "what will this look like in resin" - or making my own moulds from items I find.